WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.420 I don't think it's cold enough long enough for this year to chill as much off. 00:00:05.260 --> 00:00:11.080 That's it. Right there. I truly believe in that. It's got to be cold. 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:20.900 Okay, here we go. Call this meeting to order. The meeting of the Court Services Committee, Wednesday, March 11th, 2026. 00:00:21.420 --> 00:00:29.760 Welcome to everybody. Thanks for coming. We'll start off at 1.0 or 2.0. I'll take care of that. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:50.360 Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to get together tonight. Please guide us and give us courage to do the right thing for the County of Stevenson. And we thank you, Lord, for guiding us. In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:56.890 Thank you. 3.0 approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? 00:00:58.690 --> 00:01:01.010 So moved. Second. 00:01:01.750 --> 00:01:09.790 Okay. Motion by Busker, second by Hadley. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. 00:01:10.010 --> 00:01:10.410 Aye. 00:01:10.410 --> 00:01:14.490 Aye. Those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 00:01:15.750 --> 00:01:21.310 Net 4.0 review and approval of the meeting minutes from February 11th, 2026 meetings. 00:01:21.770 --> 00:01:24.810 I would entertain a motion. 00:01:24.810 --> 00:01:26.170 I'll make a motion to approve. 00:01:26.170 --> 00:01:28.530 Motion by Ms. Williams. 00:01:28.530 --> 00:01:29.130 Second. 00:01:29.130 --> 00:01:31.610 Second by Mr. Busker. 00:01:31.610 --> 00:01:34.130 Any discussion? 00:01:34.130 --> 00:01:37.330 Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. 00:01:37.330 --> 00:01:37.930 Aye. 00:01:37.930 --> 00:01:40.650 Those opposed, same sign. 00:01:40.650 --> 00:01:43.410 Okay, moving on 5.0. 00:01:43.410 --> 00:01:47.650 Approval of claims, I would entertain a motion for that. 00:01:47.650 --> 00:01:48.930 Motion. 00:01:48.930 --> 00:01:50.450 Motion by Mr. Meester. 00:01:50.450 --> 00:01:51.250 Second. 00:01:51.250 --> 00:01:53.150 seconded by Mr. Hadley. 00:01:53.150 --> 00:01:58.990 The claims are $167,8,29. 00:02:00.850 --> 00:02:03.090 Do we have any discussion? 00:02:04.630 --> 00:02:08.270 Seeing none, all those in favor, say aye, aye. 00:02:08.270 --> 00:02:12.170 Those opposed, same sign, motion passes. 00:02:12.170 --> 00:02:15.970 I will just sign this quickly and pass it along 00:02:15.970 --> 00:02:27.930 so I don't forget it again. 00:02:27.930 --> 00:02:40.410 Only comment? All right. We see none. Reports to committee. Judge is absent. Travis is absent. But Dr. McGee is right here where we need her. 00:02:42.010 --> 00:02:54.870 Good evening. So I just wanted to report that thanks to Chanel's tech rat, we were able to get two standing kiosks in the office. 00:02:54.870 --> 00:03:02.450 so we now have an electronic probation check-in system so when the probation client comes in they put 00:03:02.450 --> 00:03:10.730 in their name, address, phone number, who they're here to see and what they're here for so that has 00:03:10.730 --> 00:03:16.630 made the process a lot more efficient and it also helps us because now all the staff can see 00:03:16.630 --> 00:03:22.490 who's actually in the office because sometimes you don't know and sometimes we think we're all clear 00:03:22.490 --> 00:03:31.010 but we're not. So, so far it's working out really great. So, and it wasn't that expensive. It's like a 00:03:31.010 --> 00:03:37.890 couple thousand for that and then we'll pay the first year membership is free and then after that 00:03:37.890 --> 00:03:44.310 it'll be making around $400. But we're trying to bring ourself up to par with something that 00:03:44.310 --> 00:03:50.990 at my last meeting, Chief Judge's meeting, we share, we go around table and Lee County 00:03:50.990 --> 00:03:57.970 had adopted probation check-in system, so I went down and checked it out, so we were able to get that 00:03:57.970 --> 00:04:04.130 integrated pretty quickly, so, and the clients seem to be doing pretty well with it. Downfall, it's not 00:04:04.130 --> 00:04:13.110 Spanish-speaking, but if need be, they can come up to the front, check in, we can do a manual check-in, 00:04:13.110 --> 00:04:21.990 and we do have InterpreNet and we do also have, fortunately, one officer who is bilingual if we need to utilize her. 00:04:22.670 --> 00:04:31.270 So I just wanted to say, happy, something good to report and trying to bring us up to the times. 00:04:32.330 --> 00:04:35.870 Nice. That's good. Yeah. That's a good question. Yes, absolutely. 00:04:35.870 --> 00:04:38.830 How often do you have to utilize the bilingual employee? 00:04:38.830 --> 00:05:08.350 You know, it seems to be like a certain couple of certain days of the week where we have our intakes come down for their first time. So she'll help out periodically with that. Most of the officers actually do use the InterpreNet, but because I didn't want it to be where we hired her and then it's like, okay, just go to her because that's not her first priority or job duties, but just utilize her as needed. 00:05:08.350 --> 00:05:37.350 so we do have a couple officers that just like to say hey come help which is fine so I would say mostly when we get new clients down after they're sentenced to probation that's where she's utilized the most and I know a couple other departments have asked her to help out from time to time so she's definitely available and willing to help we just try not to take advantage of them that makes sense yes 00:05:38.350 --> 00:05:50.870 I've noticed in the budget, looking at the budget, and we spend a lot of money on, in the car services, obviously, you all know that, in interpretation, or in interpreting expenses. 00:05:52.790 --> 00:05:55.230 Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions? 00:05:57.710 --> 00:06:01.110 Seeing that, we'll move on to Mr. Larson, State's Attorney. 00:06:02.150 --> 00:06:02.590 Thank you. 00:06:03.190 --> 00:06:04.330 Good evening, everyone. 00:06:04.730 --> 00:06:05.450 Good evening. 00:06:05.450 --> 00:06:10.830 I'm happy to report that we are down just one attorney. 00:06:11.470 --> 00:06:17.190 We've got our previous victim and witness coordinator, Caden Goodman, has gotten her temporary license. 00:06:17.570 --> 00:06:19.510 That's called a 7-Eleven license. 00:06:20.170 --> 00:06:26.270 It now allows her to practice law under supervision of an attorney while she finishes law school. 00:06:26.270 --> 00:06:28.870 So we're pretty happy about that. 00:06:29.070 --> 00:06:33.550 We haven't been this fully staffed in probably more than a year. 00:06:33.550 --> 00:06:38.530 So, it's a relief. 00:06:39.350 --> 00:06:43.930 She's currently taking on juvenile abuse, neglect, delinquency, and some PTRs. 00:06:45.390 --> 00:06:57.490 We're looking forward to the county's walking challenge, and I think we're going to have high enrollment in the insurance health screening coming up this next month. 00:06:59.370 --> 00:07:02.750 Like many other places, sickness has hit our office. 00:07:02.750 --> 00:07:09.710 we've had Shiva Lynn and Rios is at the office when I left and she was she was in their coffin. 00:07:10.650 --> 00:07:19.750 Our new victim and witness coordinator has been out for a couple of days and I think our office manager was under the weather for a while also but we are persisting. 00:07:21.210 --> 00:07:25.170 The post new year trial season is starting to cool off. 00:07:25.170 --> 00:07:45.790 We had three pretty big trials in February and then into the beginning of March, which is, it's a lot of work for everybody, but we've gotten through them and moving forward, we're expecting that the trials will be spread out a little bit more, which makes them much more manageable. 00:07:46.970 --> 00:07:50.530 You've got my statistics. I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone may have. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:55.200 Anyone have any questions? 00:07:55.200 --> 00:08:24.500 I just have one. Was there a trial Monday night late? There was a lot of cars around the courthouse when I came to the Monday meeting. I'm just kind of curious. Not this Monday. It was last, a week ago from this Monday was the last big trial we had. Well, something was going on downtown. If it was not a trial, I mean, it was probably a good thing then. Yeah. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Carl. Moving on to Ms. Bardell. Good evening. Good evening. 00:08:25.200 --> 00:08:49.460 You should have my report if you have any questions that you know. I also attached our Aleo flyer. It's something new that we're starting, which is Illinois Legal Aid Online. It's a website that has a lot of information for legal questions and forms that they can fill out and also forms that it's kind of like an interview. 00:08:49.460 --> 00:09:19.220 they go through and ask a question and depending on how you answer it then it takes you to the to the next session so we're going to work with them we had our first day March 5th unfortunately we did not have any customers for that day but I'm hoping we will get some customers the navigator that is coming lives in Freeport and she's able to do her own work also it's in the law library I had sent the information out to the judicial partners voices 00:09:19.460 --> 00:09:27.140 the Senior Center, FACC, a few other places to get them out. If you know anybody or any place where we can 00:09:27.140 --> 00:09:34.200 let people know about that, let me know. Okay, do they have to do it at your office? They can't get into 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:39.540 the, let's say from home? Anybody can get on the website. Okay, it's a website that you can access 00:09:39.540 --> 00:09:49.160 the counties? It is a link on ours or you can just go to their website. Got it. Yeah, 00:09:49.160 --> 00:09:58.780 I'm an attorney, so we're not giving legal advice, but it's a navigator. Walk them through or show them maybe where they can find answers to their questions. 00:09:59.200 --> 00:09:59.500 Okay. 00:10:03.310 --> 00:10:04.530 That's all I have to do. 00:10:04.750 --> 00:10:05.690 Did we use that? 00:10:05.910 --> 00:10:10.210 Wasn't there used to an organization called Prairie State Legal Service that did? 00:10:10.210 --> 00:10:11.290 There still is. 00:10:12.210 --> 00:10:15.090 They did lawyers in the library in town for a while. 00:10:15.190 --> 00:10:19.550 They haven't done that for years because of some funding and shortage of attorneys. 00:10:19.970 --> 00:10:20.190 Okay. 00:10:20.650 --> 00:10:24.530 We are working with a couple of local attorneys to try to get that back going. 00:10:25.070 --> 00:10:25.370 Okay. 00:10:25.530 --> 00:10:27.050 It's just taking a while. 00:10:27.050 --> 00:10:36.870 They do some stuff, but not a whole lot of stuff, and they are in record, so they don't help Stevenson County as much 00:10:36.870 --> 00:10:40.570 I haven't heard, I know years ago 00:10:40.570 --> 00:10:47.410 They'll help with some expungements and maybe some evictions, I've seen them come out here 00:10:47.410 --> 00:10:52.730 Okay, any other questions? Thank you 00:10:52.730 --> 00:11:21.050 I'll move on to youth diversion fees, this month, or last month, we have $565.42 added, giving us a total of $10,506.74, so we've got our budget and amount covered, I was going to ask Georgia if we had anyone fill out an application yet, just one, one so far, okay. 00:11:22.730 --> 00:11:26.710 They're due by April 1st? 00:11:26.790 --> 00:11:27.630 Yes, 1st, yeah. 00:11:30.100 --> 00:11:31.480 I'm going to have to make a few calls, maybe. 00:11:32.680 --> 00:11:33.200 I don't know. 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.060 It would be interesting to know how many people even hear about it. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:38.940 I've told a few people. 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:39.800 Okay. 00:11:41.040 --> 00:11:44.100 In the past, I've reached out to some of the area schools. 00:11:44.280 --> 00:11:45.220 Maybe I'll do that again. 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:47.660 Okay. 00:11:49.220 --> 00:11:49.880 All right. 00:11:52.880 --> 00:11:54.040 There's no old business. 00:11:54.040 --> 00:11:59.340 to move on to new business and we'll rely on Chanel to cover this. 00:12:00.340 --> 00:12:04.600 It's approval of the Seratica, is that right? 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:05.480 Socrata. 00:12:05.620 --> 00:12:06.580 Socrata, okay. 00:12:07.040 --> 00:12:10.780 Dashboard contract with Gooden and Associates. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:11.260 Yes. 00:12:12.640 --> 00:12:16.780 Gooden and Associates is our CMS vendor. 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.200 So that's our case management system. 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:47.080 We already, or I already do quarterly reports that I report to the AOIC quarterly. This is a dashboard that they are requiring. It'll take all the data and more data than I'm reporting now, and they can get a report at any time. So they don't have to wait for the quarterly reports. And then it'll be, I believe, made public also. 00:12:47.080 --> 00:13:01.960 So what this contract is, is just establishing that the state had given us already a grant, I can't remember, this has been going on for a few years. 00:13:03.280 --> 00:13:12.680 The state gave us an initial grant of $12,000 to help pay for it, but now there's a yearly fee in the contract to be signed. 00:13:12.680 --> 00:13:18.760 That's it, that is. Carl looked at it, thought it looked okay. 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:22.840 And this is the budget expense? 00:13:23.540 --> 00:13:27.680 Yeah. I have money and visas and stuff. 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.280 How much is it going to cost you? 00:13:30.540 --> 00:13:33.820 $2,004. That's probably a year. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:34.280 Annually? 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:34.820 Yeah. 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:41.340 This gets passed on to the all-county board there. 00:13:42.460 --> 00:13:42.820 Yes. 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:43.540 Okay. 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:50.340 Okay, well, I would entertain a motion to pass this. 00:13:50.340 --> 00:13:51.840 Motion to approve. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:53.340 Motion by Mr. Hadley. 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:53.940 Second. 00:13:53.940 --> 00:13:56.440 Second by Mr. Meester. 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:58.440 In discussion? 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.240 All those in favor, say aye. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:01.240 Aye. 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:02.640 Those opposed, same sign. 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.640 Move this right down to 10.0, which is adjournment. 00:14:09.640 --> 00:14:13.340 So moved by Mr. Busker, second. 00:14:13.340 --> 00:14:15.500 I'll do a second. 00:14:15.920 --> 00:14:16.180 Okay. 00:14:16.180 --> 00:14:17.520 Second by Ms. Williams. 00:14:18.260 --> 00:14:19.520 All those in favor, say aye. 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:20.080 Aye. 00:14:20.340 --> 00:14:22.040 We'll just vote for the same sign. 00:14:22.940 --> 00:14:24.080 Thank you all very much. 00:14:25.760 --> 00:14:26.680 Short and sweet. 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:27.980 You can. 00:14:29.380 --> 00:14:29.900 Aye. 00:14:29.900 --> 00:14:33.120 Why don't you start the budget policy? 00:14:34.500 --> 00:14:36.140 First of June, after the April. 00:14:38.140 --> 00:14:39.020 May. 00:14:39.820 --> 00:14:40.680 I thought you liked it. 00:14:40.680 --> 00:14:40.760 I thought you liked it. 00:14:40.760 --> 00:14:41.240 I thought you liked it. 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:41.780 I thought you liked it. 00:14:41.780 --> 00:14:41.820 I thought you liked it. 00:14:41.820 --> 00:14:42.260 I thought you liked it. 00:14:42.260 --> 00:14:42.320 I thought you liked it. 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:43.320 I thought you liked it. 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:44.320 She can go through. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:45.320 Good night, girl. 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:46.320 Yeah. 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:47.320 Yeah. 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:48.320 Yeah. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.320 It has to be around the office. 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:51.320 Yeah. 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.320 They can go stop. 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:57.320 And I don't know if I switch to a nice little bit. 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:58.320 Okay.